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| PM Modi's Pak visit last nail in the coffin of secessionists | | Separatists set to become history | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 26: India and Pakistan trying to make a new beginning has put the separatists in Kashmir in a tight spot. They fear that if relations between the two neighboring countries improve there is every possibility of them (separatists) becoming irrelevant.
Sources told Early Times Prime Minister Narendra Modi paying a surprise visit to Pakistan has left the separatists red faced as India and Pakistan seem to have made it clear that they have decided to push Kashmir on the backburner and move ahead.
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi stopping in Lahore and visiting the ancestral home of the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Lahore has made it clear to everyone including separatists that lot of work has been done to normalize the relations between the two countries. Modi's Pakistan visit has assumed significance as it was for the first time in the past eleven years that any Indian Prime Minister visited Pakistan that too in a very informal way.
Pakistan giving a red carpet welcome to PM Modi and both the Prime Ministers boarding a same chopper is a clear indication of the fact that India and Pakistan have crossed the small impediments and are on the way towards a bigger cause.
Sources revealed that a few separatist leaders in Kashmir held closed door meetings on Saturday to discuss PM Modi's surprise visit to Pakistan. "It seems India and Pakistan have decided to leave Kashmir and sort out other issues and move ahead. If it's so then a new strategy needs to be framed. As its we are finding it hard to survive due to shortage of funds," separatists are understood to have discussed during a meeting in Srinagar on Saturday.
A few separatists who had deserted Hurriyat dove Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and joined the Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani, according to the sources are in a dilemma. "Many people believe that if relations between India and Pakistan improve there would be no space for hardliners and only moderate leaders would be given a chance to come forward," sources added.
A source revealed that a few people who are pushing for Indo-Pak relations to improve have suggested that both the countries should give a chance to the elected representatives of the people to put forth their views and separatists should be ignored till they contest the elections and prove their representative character. "This will serve two purposes. One it would end the role of people who preach secessionism and secondly it would lead closure of all the shops in Jammu and Kashmir who have been befooling people on the name of Azadi," the source added.
He said, "No one can predict what will happen in future but the fact is that India and Pakistan coming close to each other has unnerved the separatist camp and has made them uncomfortable. Separatists stand exposed as people have realized that nothing has been achieved in past 26-years and they (separatists) have promoted bloodshed to fill their own coffers." |
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